Posts by matthewbuchanan
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If you click on "45 comments" you go to the beginning of the thread. If you click on "7 new" it takes you to the first new comment since your last visit, which is generally exactly where you want to be. Not the last comment in the thread, but the first new comment.
Stephen, this is on the development plan somewhere, but the best way to get back to the first new post since your last visit currently is to use the email subscription link on a topic. It's up near the top of the page by the RSS feed icons. You get a single email when there's one (or more) new posts, with a link to the exact location of the first new post. Monitoring via RSS works in a similar fashion.
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And no sooner I post that, than I see Tom is back, and claims to have fixed the subtle synching bug that has plagued him for the last couple of weeks. The system is still working through a backlogue but seems more responsive today.
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I really think PA should switch off those personalised icons until the system serving them up can cope with the load.
damn... system has been seriously sluggish for the past two days.
Yes, we're close to giving up on Tom/Gravatar, undoubtedly the cause of the slowdowns this week. Some browsers render the rest of the page and wait patiently for the avatar icons, some evidently don't. Stay tuned.
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On Safari slowdowns, seems Dave Hyatt has already fixed the underlying issues in recent nightly builds, and that Macenstein have re-run their tests and confirmed huge improvement:
Just wanted to let you know that as per your request we ran our tests again using your latest WebKit builds, and the improvement is dramatic.
@Hamish: Planet of the Journals seems to be back on track, eh.
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Safari is considered harmful
To productivity, at least. Fascinating read, I had no idea.
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But I've just realised that links in these forums only open in a new tab in Firefox. In Safari, it's a new window. Any one know why?
It's just a design thing, the developers of Firefox have (rightly) decided that in a tabbed world, "_blank" means new tab, not new window. I wish the Safari team would do the same, or at least provide a preference setting.
Use of "_blank" is not without its detractors though, particularly for browsers in which it's impossible to override it. It's been dropped/deprecated from the XHTML 1.0 Strict specification, which is one of the few reasons PA is still 1.0 Transitional. The recommended approach is now to use JavaScript to open new windows.
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I find that very pleasing here.
Russell, if you're using Safari you can hold down the Apple/Command key when clicking a link to achieve that effect. Not sure if Firefox has a similar keyboard shortcut.
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And YouTube?? We can?
For YouTube, just paste in the clip's URL, don't bother with the "embeddable" code they offer, we do our own take on it.
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Why do people get so abusive because a free service isn't working very well?
I agree, although there are some paying customers too (premium accounts) and I could see why they might get more irate. Still, mostly out of order.
And YouTube?? We can? Images?
Yes to YouTube: been happening in the Monitor and OurTube sections since launch, but actually supported site-wide. No to images at present, as that's more difficult to police.
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Heh. Urban Dictionary sums it nicely:
"i t0tally pnwed u. u r so a n00b and i am so 1337."